Brittney Castillo, a student at Art Institute of California in Hollywood, won first place in Gerber Technology’s student fashion design competition at ideation2015, the company’s annual software conference for the fashion, apparel, accessories and footwear industries.

Devold of Norway, that country’s oldest producer of knitwear, has chosen to migrate from Gerber Technology’s webPDM™ to YuniquePLM™ web-based product lifecycle management software, continuing a longstanding relationship with Gerber and Norwegian partner Amatec. The knitwear giant has been using webPDM for over 15 years.

The Gerber fashion design competition for ideation2015 was truly all about the journey just as much as the destination. Students from colleges all over the country were challenged to re-create pieces that belong to Charlotte Smith’s “The Darnell Collection” from five different eras in a runway style contest.